JAMAICA: Have you washed? - (Jamaica Gleaner)
November 18, 2007 – 8:18 pmWhy do we wash our hands? Mostly, it is because they are dirty and if they are not obviously soiled many persons don’t wash. There have been many studies done on the impact of hand washing on the health of the person or those contacted. The results may be surprising.
According to Dr. Charles Gerba, microbiologist at the University of Arizona, one-tenth of a gram of faeces can have 100 million salmonella organisms, 10 million viruses or one billion rotaviruses. He has shown that 700 viral particles of the cold virus can linger on your person up to 72 hours after leaving the point of contact, thus having the potential to cause illness in seven people.
It is, therefore, not surprising that colds and diarrhoea are so easily spread in young schoolchildren. The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States has shown that elementary schoolchildren who effectively wash their hands […]
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